Any way to adjust difflib algorithm?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-08-19, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> In article <FMqdncOMnPg-JRjXnZ2dnUVZ_tti4p2d at posted.visi>,
> Grant Edwards  <invalid at invalid> wrote:
>>On 2009-08-14, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> In my particular usage, no lines have ever been
>>> inserted/deleted, so perhaps I should be running diffs on
>>> individual lines instead?  If I do that, I can't figure out
>>> how to generate HTML output.
>>
>>I ended up using the SequenceMatcher on individual pairs of
>>lines and generating my own HTML based on the results of
>>get_matching_blocks().
>>
>>That produced the desired results.
>
> Good work!  Note that IME most diff software shows changed
> lines as a delete-and-add.  For example, diff -u

Right -- though difflib did show _some_ lines as changed rather
than deleted/added, it wasn't obvious how it decided between
the two.  I suspect it used some sort of percentage-changed
threshold.

For this application both files had all the same lines (by
definition), so what I was interested in was what parts of each
line changed.

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